Post #4447163
2026-08-08 10:20 UTC
@chpietsch@fedifreu.de
Best ways to spot them:
Check the ip on a site like ipqualityscore.com to see if it's from a datacenter or tor exit node.
Check if the domain of the signup emailadres is disposable using something like usercheck.com
Does the bio of the profile seem genuine? Take a section of it and search it between " " 's into a search engine and see if it matches an existing fedi profile, they often copy random profile's.
Doing this will find 95% of them
#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin
Replies (2)
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@jcrabapple@dmv.community 2026-08-08 10:48
@thibaultmol@en.osm.town @chpietsch@fedifreu.de I have signup requests enabled on my instance. In recent months I've had so many semi legitimate looking requests that I can't even respond to them all. I trained a bot to filter out the fake ones so I can evaluate the ones that might be real people trying to join my instance.
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@smartphone@fedifreu.de 2026-08-08 19:45
@thibaultmol@en.osm.town @chpietsch@fedifreu.de please keep in mind: Some individuals on Mastodon need the Tor network to protect themselves :-(